¶ I make no excuse for this piece of flagrant trumpet blowing. Eric Meyer writes:
How have I gone this long without encountering Clagnut ? It’s the kind of design that I can sort of vaguely see in my head when I sit down to do something, but when I do it, the end result is never as good as I thought it would be. Richard Rutter apparently has the ability to see things clearly from the start, and carry them through until they’re done so that they look as good, or better, when finished.
This is praise indeed from a man as influential as Eric. Eric goes on to say that he sees some rendering differences between browsers due to box model problems
; regular readers will know I’ve already mentioned these problems with IE6/Win. They have been addressed in the reformulation of clagnut, which I am planning to release this weekend with much improved markup and rationalized style sheets.
Comments
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I came in off Eric’s site (and Jeffrey’s site last week) and noticed the IE6/Win problem. NS7 does a beautiful job, however, as can be expected.
Nice site, and very clever idea on the comments field – having it right on the page, rather than the typical pop-up. Don’t be surprised if it gets ‘borrowed’ a lot!
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Actually, the problem I saw was that the main column is different widths in IE5/Mac and Gecko-based browsers. In the latter, the column is a little bit narrower than the images. The other things was that in my default browser window, which is about 600 pixels wide, the link column drops below the main column. That’s to be expected, but it was a bit odd the first time. Obviously with a wider window this isn’t a problem.
I didn’t see IE6 problems because I don’t have IE6. I still need IE5.5/Win and since I can’t have both at once without installing expensive software to hack around the problem, I’m stuck.
Anyway, nice job all around. I look forward to the refolrmulation!
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I like this design very much. You do have however some validation problems in your XHTML. W3C validation service is much more forgiving than it should. Please check the following URL instead:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/cgi-bin/validate.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clagnut.com%2F&warnings=yes&input=yes
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Michael – Thanks for that.
Validation errors now fixed. All due to an over enthusiastic CMS.
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